Johnny Carson
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Date of Birth: October 23, 1925
Date of Death: January 23, 2005
Biography: Born as John William Carson, Carson was an American
actor, writer, and comedian. His most well known work was his television show The
Late Night Show Starring Johnny Carson.
Carson was born in Corning, Iowa and raised in Nebraska. While in
Nebraska, Carson learned a few magic tricks and performed under the name “The
Great Carsoni” at age 14. After attending Millsaps College in Jackson,
Mississippi where he received v-12 officer training Carson served in the navy,
from 1943 to 1946. For the next few years, Johnny took a few jobs with TV and
Radio stations leading to his job on The Tonight Show in 1962. Many people
around the American nation started making watching The Tonight Show a evening
ritual. The television show had things like interviews, music, comedy sketches
and monologues. Starting out pre-recorded, The Late Night Show started doing
live shows after a couple years. Carson
was known for finding quick solutions to unexpected problematic situations.
Carson's free spirited comedic attitude earned him many fans and his hit show
eventually came to the point where it would be two to two and a half hours of
uncensored live footage.
Married four times, Carson was an investor in De Lorean
Motor Company and was seen in a drunk driving accident while driving a De
Lorean DMC-12 sports car that occurred in Beverly Hills. Carson pleaded no
contest to the charges brought against him in the incident and played off it by
having a police escort to the Tonight Show stage. An amateur astronomer himself, Carson often
asked his close friend Carl Sagan, an astronomer onto the show to give talks
and presentations on astronomy.
Carson's child from his first marriage was killed in a
car accident in 1991. At the end of his
last show, Carson featured a photograph taken by his son. John William Carson
died early 2005 from respiratory arrest linked with emphysema, He was 79 years
old.
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